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La vie des peintres flamands, allemands et hollandois, avec des portraits gravés en taille-douche, une indication de leurs principaux ouvrages, & des réflexions sur leurs différentes manieres

by: Descamps, J.-B. (Jean-Baptiste), 1715-1791

Publication date: 1753

Topics: Painters, Artists, Painters -- Belgium, Painters -- Germany, Painters -- Netherlands, Artists -- Portraits, Art, Portraits as Topic, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands

Publisher: Paris, C.A. Jombert

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: French

Volume: v.1, c.1

Item Size: 584.4M

Apparently first edition. Cf. Brunet II, column 608

Printer's statement (Rouen : A. Viret) and privilege at end of v. 1 dated 1752

Publisher varies: v. 3-4: Desaint & Saillant, rue de S. Jean de Beauvais; Pissot, Quai de Conty; Durand, rue de Foin

Title pages in black and red

Some portraits engraved by Etienne Ficquet, marked in the plate

Pagination of the text of the 4 v.: 437, 480, 402, 302 p. Printing errors in pagination throughout

Includes indexes at end of each vol. and for each vol. in v. 4. Includes errata

In Library's copies 1, 3-4: pagination of v. 2 jumps from 446 to 457 (text unaffected) for a total of 480 p. Library's copy 2's last numbered p. is 472, lacking the errata

In Library's copy 3: pagination of v. 1, p. 81-96 in disarray, 81, 86, 87, 84, 85, 82, 83, 88, 89, 94, 95, 92, 93, 90, 91, 96

In Library's copy 4: v. 1, 429 p., lacks pagination of index; its v. 4 dated 1764

4 volumes 20 cm